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Ethan : Pale skin 6' height muscular and handsome.

Elena: beautiful girl 5'7" height. Soft spoken slightly curly hairs.

Ethan is a business man after marriage Elena did work but after their daughter Niva born Elena becomes a housewife

Elena loves art music Dance etc. She is soft yet passionate lover.

Julian : Tall 5'11" Handsome black haired

Clara: 5'4" petite figure beautiful

setting: New York City

Julian is a musician and a small office worker.

And Clara is marketing head in renowned company.

Elena and Ethan they were high-school sweethearts. then later , after college they both get married. Clara and Julian also married but it's an arranged marriage for them..

On the first few years Elena Ethan live happily but then slowly Ethan starts to be distant. Ethan is short tempered quick to react less patience and posessive which kind of suffocating to Elena.And not only that He is becoming abusive towards Elena. But because of love she tried to be with him and waiting for him to change likhe was before.

On the other hand Julian and Clara.. Julian is a loving supporting husband to Clara..but as Julian and Clara both work. Clara earn more than Julian but Julian, he isn't bothered by it. He supported Clara. Julian is soft spoken, Intellectual, understanding, patience to Clara' work culture.When sometimes Clara can't he take part in the household chores as well.. But Clara never forget to remind him that how less he earns than her..and often look down on him. She isn't abusive exactly but her words sharp as knife.

Let's unveil together where this marriages and situation changes and lead to Elena and Julian come across.

Elena laying on the bed while Ethan already fall asleep beside her and she is staring at the ceiling just before the bed how in dinner table Ethan gets violent when Elena urging to spend time with her and being nostalgic about Ethan and hers past during high school. There love those late night talks.. it's all seems like an distant memory..

Elena was going to memory lane and thinking about the time they started dating.not a flashbacks but snippets of the past

There relationship start to decline after their daughter was born and for taking care of her Elena left her job temporarily for now as There daughter is very young need constant care.. it's just few months of her birth. But after every argument when Ethan calm down he also immediately said sorry about it but it's not stopping.

She is contemplating the past and present and tonight Ethan also Slapped her. When she was constantly asking of his behavior She still loves him at least now yet. Teardrop fall from her eyes. She compares past and present.

She is thinking while lying on bed "Is that same Ethan I fallen love to? How things change this much.? Where things are going wrong.? He Slapped me? But apologies also? What should I do? I still love him? Am I being stupid or it's just work load.? But he never before"

She turned her face to Ethan's sleeping form and emotions churning inside. She closes her eyes and drift in fitful sleep.

*Next Morning*



Elena wakes up with Ethan's shouting as Elena startled while waking up when she wakes up find Ethan furious.

"Elena for god’s sake wake up I hanve a important meeting" he shouted

" I…I am sorry Ethan I didn't realize how late it was"

She said in an apologetic tone.

"I told you Elena I have an important meeting toda, Youuu supposed to wake up early neither my shirt is pressed nor my breakfast is cooked..it's already 9 am. you are becoming lazy Day by day" He resorted while pinching his nose.

"I am sorry Ethan.." She again apologies.

"Sorry! Now get up Elena and make the breakfast fast" He said harshly.

Elena felt the hurt in his tone but she tries to reason "He just be frustrated to be late..I will talk to him.later" she thought in her mind.

Elena quickly get up from the bed and go to the kitchen and cook the breakfast.

"Ethan breakfast is ready" She calls him

While Ethan is eating the breakfast Elena ironed his shirt for the meeting.

**AFTER A WHILE**

Ethan finished his breakfast get ready for the office and left for his office.

Once Ethan left Elena let out a sigh of relief and look at the crib where there daughter Niva is playing. she picked Niva her arms and sit on the couch.

She felt a little relaxed she looks at Niva affectionately. Niva has a little mole like Ethen's on her left eyelid.

Elena looks at her and think about younger Ethan when they were in high school. She drifted in thoughts comparing younger Ethan to present's

"People changes time changes but this much you can't even recognize the person anymore…Will things ever get better any more between us?" She sighed and thought with longing and despair…

First chapter ends here~

|| AUTHOR'S NOTE||

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the story mainly contents emotionals problems in relationship. so it might felt boring to somewhere but hey it's fiction not fantasy and inspired from real situations more likely relatable in life and fiction as the characters mentioned here are my creations not real person

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~ Once Elena comes out from her thoughts of the sound of her daughter's innocent giggles not understanding the tension and turmoil in her mother's heart but Niva's giggles lighten the turmoil a little in Elena's heart.

She remembered she needed to go to the market to buy the groceries meat and other things to buy as Ethan mentioned last night few of his friends coming over for dinner.

She quickly dressed and went to the market with Niva in her arms.

She roams shop to shop buy essential things then she goes to the convenience shop.. after paying the money there , as Elena walks out from the store she hears a high pitched female voice as she follows the voice to see what's happening, she find a woman around her age or one two years difference probably from herself, walking out from the boutique opposite the convenience store she was coming out..as woman keep shouting with the man with her probably her husband or boyfriend Elena assume. The man looks close to Ethan age as well.

"Julian, seriously?you are buying this on our anniversary? It's so cheap.. maybe the lowest in the shop. " She resorted with disgust.

"Clara, calm down, please. we are on the streets. I am giving you the highest I could afford." The man tries to talk calmly

"Yeah, yeah, whatever that much penny you earn, it's better you didn't take me in this place. Just buy that cheapest dress from there," she throws her hands on the air.

The man looks down in embarrassment but doesn't raise his voice

"Clara, I will try to do better for you. ok, tell me what you want," the man said softly

"Yeah, as if you can buy that one for me, huh?"

She pointed out that one of the mannequins displays outside the prize shows 5000 dollars

"That middle floral dress"

"Clara, I don't have that much now, sorry," He said quietly

"Wow, if you can't, then why did you even say you will do better?" The woman snickered

The man reminded silent

"Let's go, you idiot.. if I bring my own card I could buy that.. you are just pathetic..if you weren't my dad's friends son I would never even glance at you just you look good that one thing you have a plus point..otherwise I could marry rich man who will match my standards of living" She said in a disgusting tone and start to walk away and the man followed her silently.

As they walked away, Elena watched the full scene unfold in front of her. She feels really bad for the man. But also she thinks herself even though she never talked like that with Ethan neither she think of but she couldn't help but compared herself with that man and thought:

"If I would ever talk like that with Ethan, he might probably lose it by now, but that man is so calm and handled it with patience when that woman is clearly disrespectful to him. Why is he even tolerating?"

As the question struck, she thought of herself she is tolerating Ethan's, too. Isn't she subconsciously finding similarities with that unknown man whom she never met before, or she doesn't know if she will personally?

While going back home, Elena kept thinking about everything unfolding in front of her about that couple she compares the situation as much as she saw in there. Never before she thought that deeply the situation but that man's calmness when that woman insults him like this. That something struck with Elena couldn't help but think about the man more and more she felt intrigued about him his personality. She couldn't understand why why she couldn't stop thinking about him

"He is just a stranger, right ?" She thought in herself

As she reached home ~

||AUTHOR'S NOTE ||

As here the 2nd chapter comes out.

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I will try to upload chapter three soon probably tomorrow I will try..

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